For reasons I don't understand, average people are willing to frequently switch the OS or UI on their phone, whereas they tend to stick with the same computer they're used to using.

Oh, you guessed! Does this mean I don't win the stuffed wombat?

There is always prior art for everything. Apple, Microsoft, and Google have all been liberally inspired by each other, and by a great many other companies. It can always be said that a different company did it first, and if not, that a different company was the first to do it right. And after a few evolutions, the noise restarts again. Where's the hacker love? Can't we just appreciate these awesome machines for what they are?

The point is that Apple stole from Windows 95!

This whole "stealing" thing is pointless.

Dumping tech links in Public just spams the 90% of my followers who don't want to see them, so that's not really going to work, I don't think.

I post things to my Reader feed. I don't have *that* many subscribers, but I'd like to replicate the experience in G+. Namely:

1. Third parties should be able to subscribe/unsubscribe to my feed
2. My feed should not be shown to non-subscribers in my G+ circles
3. I should be able to add stories to my feed with a bookmarklet
4. People should be able to subscribe to my feed with an RSS reader

AFAIK, all of this is currently impossible in G+. So... it's a downgrade for the moment.

Same with miles. For comparison, here are all the numbers by which 1000 is evenly divisible:

2 4 5 8 10 20 25 40 50 100 125 200 250 500

and here are all the numbers by which 5280 is evenly divisible:

2 3 4 5 6 8 10 11 12 15 16 20 22 24 30 32 33 40 44 48 55 60 66 80 88 96 110 120 132 160 165 176 220 240 264 330 352 440 480 528 660 880 1056 1320 1760 2640

Feature!

In practice, though, I prefer metric--only so many divisions are practically useful to me. I GPS a lot and I found that after I set the unit to metric, I became used to it in a relatively short amount of time. Eventually I just got to know both, sometimes mixing systems in the same sentence.

Play your cards right, and you can get them to pay for a new phone, too. ;-)

"I mean, if you've seen one change, you've seen 'em all."

"And have you seen them all?"

"Well, I've seen one. Well, a little one... a picture of a... I've heard about them."

Unicode and binary data handling. That's enough for me, right there. The new command line parsing stuff is more concise than getopt. And it parses JSON, too.

Not everyone is going to like every change, but declaring you've seen no change for the better out of the huge number of changes just means you haven't looked enough.

"What! Man, you asked for a data compressor, so that's what we gave you... you never said anything about writing a decompressor, too!"

"I tried that! Don't you think I would have tried that?"